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Step in now to stop Rwanda-scale genocide in Tigray , UN secretary-general urged (The Guardian)

Post by sarcasm » 18 May 2022, 07:56

Step in now to stop Rwanda-scale genocide in Tigray , UN secretary-general urged

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Re: Step in now to stop Rwanda-scale genocide in Tigray , UN secretary-general urged (The Guardian)

Post by sarcasm » 20 Jun 2022, 11:29

Learn lessons of Rwandan genocide and act now to stop Ethiopian war, UN urged

African groups urge UN to press for humanitarian access and peacekeeping force to be deployed in Tigray amid atrocities

African civil society groups have accused the United Nations of inaction over atrocities in Ethiopia, warning in a letter that it had not learned the lessons of the 1994 Rwanda genocide and that the “situation risks repeating itself in Ethiopia today”.

Tens of thousands of people are thought to have been killed and millions more displaced since war broke out between Ethiopia’s federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the ruling party of the country’s northern region, in November 2020.

All of the parties in the war have been accused of crimes including arbitrary killings, mass rape and torture, while ethnic Tigrayans across the country have been subject to mass arrests amid a spike in hate speech, which has seen the prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, refer to the Tigrayan rebels as “weeds” and “cancer”.

In the letter to the UN secretary general, António Guterres, 12 African civil society groups including the Kampala-based Atrocities Watch Africa, the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa and Nigeria’s Centre for Democracy and Development called on him to “provide leadership in ending the ongoing war in Ethiopia”.

“Twenty-eight years ago, the security council similarly failed to recognise the warning signs of genocide in Rwanda or act to stop it,” the signatories said, adding: “We are concerned that the situation is repeating itself in Ethiopia today. We call on you to learn the lessons from Rwanda and act now.”

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